Aviary/Elephant/Tiger - Oakland Zoo in Oakland, CA (Part 7)

I know that I am posting these photos a little bit late, but here they are anyways. So last year (12/7/2012), my biology professor took the whole class on a field trip (as one of our labs) to the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, CA to teach us biology. While I was there, I took many photos of the animals and I am here to show you them. I have to say, I am not a big fan of zoos, but it sure is a great place for animal photos! If you love animal photos like me, definitely give your local zoo a visit. All of these photos were shot using my Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens on my Canon EOS 7D.

Full Resolution Photos and Prints: If you want to see full resolution photos or buy prints of any of the photos you see, they are up on my portfolio for viewing. If you are interested, please select a link from the following list:

• Wildlife in Captivity 2010-2012 (Best Photos)
• Oakland Zoo (Best Photos)
• Oakland Zoo (All Photos)

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Message from the Photographer: So far, I have picked out my Yosemite National Park shots I am going to post to my blog. Now all I have left is to process the RAW files. This might still take a while so I will post my other photos while I work on those.

Today, I just have photos of birds, an African Elephant (Loxodonta africana), and a tiger. This is the last post in this chain. I hope you enjoy viewing the photos.

Signs talking about the different birds in the exhibit.  

Fischer's Lovebird (Agapornis fischeri) 

 Not sure what birds these are. If you know, please comment below!

A sign talking about African Elephants (Loxodonta africana). 

 African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)

Tiger

These are all the photos for today and for this chain of posts. I hope you have enjoyed viewing them. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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Back from Vegas! :)

Hi guys! I just got back from Vegas on Friday. I didn't have any time to post so... Here I am doing it now...

It was raining really really big on the road there. It was also raining at Vegas through out the whole week. Here is a few pictures of when I crossed the borderline on the way home. What used to be desert is now lakes and marshland!

Full Resolution Photos and Prints: If you want to see full resolution photos or buy prints of any of the photos (well most of the photos) you see, they are up on my portfolio for viewing here.

So anyways... That was how big the rain was... So on the way there, I passed a street called Zzyzx Road. How you suppose to read that?

Anyways, here is what I got in Vegas.

I got this stuffed animal elephant at Circus Circus. Employee gave it to me because the machine was broken. :)

This is the Las Vegas keychain I got. 

What I did in Vegas... Hm... Well I went shopping, play at Circus Circus, and watch shows. The shows I watched are Mystere, Zen Magic, and V Show. They were all pretty good. :) Well I think the magic tricks they showed in Zen Magic was a bit amateur... I didn't really get Mystere's storyline, if there was one... V Show was awesome. :) 

The rain was like really big... It stopped on the day when I came back... It was like literally flooding in Vegas... Too much rain... I couldn't cross the street directly. I walked like half a mile extra to go cross on a sky bridge because of the water... The gutters on the sky bridge wasn't that well designed either... There were a lot of water collected on it too. Good thing most of the stuff we did was indoors... Well Vegas is like indoors. LOL

So on the way back... Desert into lakes... And like before approaching Pleasanton, heavy fog for like 20-30 miles. Saw lot's of car crashes. You couldn't even see what was in front of you! Not exaggerating. What is this world coming to? Beginning of 2012? ROFL! Tell me what you think. :P Did you see how LA got flooded?! I saw that on TV. We were actually planning on going to Disneyland... Good thing we went to Vegas instead. HAHA. Actually we originally wanted to go to Reno, but heavy snowfall... Road closed. So we had to cancel... Then we wanted to go to Disneyland, but the other family that we were planning on going with said, Las Vegas... So we went to Vegas instead... So lucky. 

So when I got home from Vegas... My new hair styling and my Solia flat iron came. :D

New styling spray.  

My new Solia flat iron.

And here is my new look. :D Tell me how I look. 

This picture makes me look like a zombie... :\ Well tell me in the comments below...

Anyways, Las Vegas pictures will be going on my photography blog once I finish with my Yellowstone and San Francisco pictures.